Zbigniew Struzik said:
;-))) Mike...
You may not need to buy the K to understand that, in all likelihood, the whole fuss is because Tony's business hurts.
This may be due to the following reasons:
1) he is not capable of delivering the technology to cope with currents around 3 Amp or so.
2) his client base is unwilling to pay the extra $$$ for higher current devices or, alternatively, his profit margin sunk...
If one is unable to win using 1) technology 2) price, one may be tempted to resort to 3) propaganda.
Cottage industry strives on tuning and little upgrades but it suffers if there is nothing to tune or upgrade. Now please
imagine for a minute a scenario as Terry describes where he fails to see any problems with his Bachmann products.
http://www.largescalecentral.com/LSCForums/viewtopic.php?id=10204&p=2 and this means no new gears, no new drives, no new fixes...
This scenario is a complete disaster for the cottage industry, so if there are no problems, they need to invent some!!
Best wishes from Tokyo, Zubi
Thank you Zubi.
One of the things I have learned in life is that when someone who cannot win an argument by means of logic and provable facts because the facts are non existent, they will always revert to personal attacks and demonstrate to the World they have automatically lost the argument.
Whilst the health or otherwise of my business is none of your business I would like to remind you that RCS has been making R/C systems for large scale model trains for longer than anyone else has. 20 plus years. I intend to be around for sometime yet.
I have survived the introduction of low cost Chinese made competition and still prosper thanks to a loyal customer base who like well made products that continue to work properly, even though the basic RF design by ELSEMA is now 34 years old. Sure mine is a cottage industry. Is there something wrong with that? It must drive the big boys nuts trying to figure out why RCS still survives.
I should point out that:
- is completely false. I use an off the shelf, amazingly reliable, solid state H bridge motor driver made by National Semi Conductor. It is rated at 3 amps.
- My client base does pay the extra for higher rated ESC’s. They are not needed in the K-27 even though the current consumption of the K-27 can be excessive at times.
In many instances “cottage industries” are the innovators that mainstream industries copy. eg Mr Lewis Polk demonstrated my R/C system at the 1992 Nuremberg Toy fair. After the Fair he offered to make my system for me in Korea. I declined and the TE was born.
If the “cottage industry” of Barry Olsen could only offer after market work why did Bachmann request specifications for the then proposed K-27? For Bachmann to ask the advice of a “cottage industry” surely that indicates Barry was somewhat more than an “afterthought” to the industry!!
I too have been approached by the mainstream manufacturers for my assistance in developing new ideas. I gladly co-operated. Until of course I realised that in one instance I had been blatantly lied to and was only being co-opted to make a certain person look good in the eyes of his masters.
Nowhere have I criticised the R/C products of my competition.
I am well aware that DCC is a formidable force in model trains. If I was so inclined I would likely adopt DCC compatibility myself. However, I see no need to. But I don’t claim the RCS/EVO systems to be “better than DCC”.
If one of my competition chooses to develop new technology that is not compatible with the mainstream, that is there brave business choice.
What I will criticise are technologies that are being rammed down the throats of consumers who don’t necessarily need or want them. Especially ideas that have been developed mainly to force LS consumers to buy the latest and greatest. These new technologies cost a lot to be developed and as such the mainstream manufacturers need to maximise their market share to pay for it. It must be galling to them that a significant proportion of the potential markert wants to stick with what they know and like.
I can just imagine the boardroom scenarios, “Don’t those cretin consumers understand that us big boys are only looking after the plebs well being”?
I will also criticise people in this industry who are proven liars when they try and call black white and white black. People who really are embroiled with one manufacturer but steadfastly deny it. People who deny the undeniable and get personal with those who call them on it.
The K-27 is a brilliant loco that would be even more brilliant with the correct ratios in the gearbox. It may be these so called “cottage industries” will be the saviour of the K-27 in the end when Barry Olsen develops and releases new more sensible gear ratios.
BTW. We are still waiting for your hypothesis to be proven by actual field testing.
1.22.5 gotta love it. PS I really dont like the outslant animals.
